Chips…I got your email notification thingy in my Inbox today…Don’t be offended if I don’t want to be notified if I got a response to a post 🙂 I live here…I pretty much see everything that others post. Just have way too much stuff coming into my email…I don’t need more!

Yes. I think I may have gotten them previously, but not in a while….I haven’t gotten one of these in about a year, until today. I just ignore for the reason that i mentioned. Hope this isn’t another opps to deal with for you…..let Danny handle it! He’ll just eat it:)

I love being able to see so many pictures of the First Family every day. As I looked at this pictures of FLOTUS I noticed how engaged she always is with everyone she meets. And I was thinking how many lives they are touching each and every day. So many people will have hugged them, shaken their hands, smiled at them and gotten a smile in return. People tell them their troubles and share their happiness. It’s just amazing how many lives they personally touch each and every single day. Thanks for so many things here, but this is a thank you for the pictures. …And the TOD community. …And the naughty mat comments. …And the great tweets. …And the positive Obama loving world that is powerful to see and that I can actually feel when I open TOD. …And, oh heck! Itz all so good!!!

Looks like our First Lady had a very successful toy drive! My buddy at work and I started our annual toy and fundraiser for the kids at a local home for children. I’m always amazed at how generous people are – people really care about kids. It restores your faith in humanity 🙂

I don’t know if this was already posted, but I’m so glad. This article takes Issa to the woodshed and with good reason.

“House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is calling for a high level security briefing on the operations of Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in which he would have to be forthcoming about what information he has released and to whom after he got his hands on sensitive documents surrounding HealthCare.Gov. It would then be up to the Department of Justice to make a determination….

The Ed Show had a panel that discussed it:

….Issa finally got his hands on sensitive information about HealthCare.Gov that were it to be leaked, panelist E.J. Dionne pointed out, would make the site vulnerable to a cyber attack and would endanger national security. The release of the information could jeopardize the security of websites across the government, according to cyber security experts from across the administration IT departments….

Darrell Issa is a crook! I wish the DNC and DCCC would target his district and expose his criminal past as well as the millions of our tax money he is wasting in his witch-hunt against President Obama. I also think that he can be defeated in 2014. His margin of victory in 2012 was much lower than his margins in all the previous elections.

Last year was awful, with PBO in Hawaii for only a couple of days. I absolutely LOATHED the GOP a year ago. And it didn’t get any better in January when they filibustered an enlisted vet for Defense Secretary. That episode ranked up there with the daily crap thrown at our President by the MSM and GOP (in terms of how mad it made me).

Yesterday I was asking TODville why Max Baucus for Ambassador to China (and others wondered too… FayPax is obviously not a fan [nor am I — think that the “corporatist that Brian Schweitzer had in mind when called POTUS one was actually Baucus). And MTMarilyn said she thought Baucus was on his way to lobby for some financial services firm when he retires.

BobFR was astute enough to figure out PBO’s real rationale, and here it is in a 3 minute video last night (from the Rachel Maddow show, hosted by Steve Kornacki because Rachel was at the WH Christmas party for the media — which apparently was attended by Chris “emoPutin” Hayes and Ed Schultz as well).

Thank you Arapaho. Yep. “No mystery” as to why Max is on his way to China (btw, GOP can’t filibuster appointments anymore 🙂 ) and a Dem will be MT’s next Senator thereby campaiging as an incumbent. Cool move!!!

Not a moment to soon for my liking! Aloha, beautiful First Family. So this will be Sunny’s first vacay in HI? I presume?! She will Love Love Love it! Bo can show her all his favorite spots to body surf! Woot! And Woof!

I watched part of a segment on Rachel’s show. Senator Menendez has a bill to enact sanctions on Iran. This effort will clearly sabotage President Obama’s and SoS Kerry’s efforts at diplomacy with Iran. I saw that one of my Senator’s, Ben Cardin, is one of the sponsors of this bill. I immediately sent him an email and told him if the bill is brought to the floor and he votes for it, it’s a deal breaker for me. I not a single issue voter. But this is playing with fire. PBO is trying to prevent a war with Iran and we have these stupid Congresscriters attempting to undo his efforts.

PBO has said he will veto the bill if it passes. Harry Reid has said the bill won’t come to floor, but there are several Democrats who are sponsors on the Menendez bill. And the possibility does exist that there could be enough Senators to override PBO’s veto. I doubt it, but I think we should let our Senators know where we stand. May I suggest you email/call/tweet your Senators and tell them to vote NO on the Menendez bill, should it come to the floor.

Rep. Peter King said fellow Republican Sen. Rand Paul owes the nation’s top intelligence official an apology after saying he should resign for “lying” to a Senate committee about a controversial surveillance program.

The New York congressman also said that Paul’s comparison of National Intelligence Director James Clapper to NSA leaker Edward Snowden is “absolutely disgraceful.”

“For Senator Paul to compare that patriot, General Clapper, with someone like Snowden, who is a traitor, who has put American lives at risk – Senator Paul should be ashamed of himself,” King said Thursday on CNN’s “The Situation Room.”

“It’s an absolute disgrace. He disgraced his office and he owes General Clapper an apology immediately.”

I don’t like Rep. Peter King. But in this case he is absolutely correct! Edward Snowden is a traitor. And so is Glenn Greenwald! Chicken hawk Rand Paul is a disgrace. Rand Paul may think he is winning the emoprogs, but he will never win the support of the majority of Americans by praising a traitor who handed over our country’s classified information to the Russians and the Chinese.

A co worker of my son who is 50 years old and has no insurance and who was just socked with a bill for $65,000 to remove 8 inches of her colon, was stunned when I told her about ObamaCare and the exchanges.

She told me I was the very first person to tell her it was a good deal. I think she makes about $25,000 and she was simply stunned that ObamaCare was going to help someone like her.

[…]ing right wing […]holes and their […]ing lies and […]ing bull[…] are going to cost people vast sums of money and likely will cost someone their life as well.

I am having trouble thinking of any group of people who have more hate for their fellow man than the US GOP members. Perhaps those who supported apartheid were worse – but to want people to go bankrupt and die rather than tell them the truth about the ACA is truly disgusting. Little doubt there are millions who think it is simply “the government taking my money”

Yes. Not a joke. The outcome of the votes for this batch of nominees are secure. The GOP Senators cannot win so they are getting some spiteful payoff by leaving the Dems to have sleepless nights all by themselves.

This is a 100% Democratic win.
As I’d guess PBO will point out if there is a presser tomorrow.

The Dem Senators should point out that the Repub Senators drug out the earlier appointments as long as allowed only to run down the clock and inspire of their antics they are leaving before the job is done.

They are very happy to ruin the President’s Christmas – time and time again – but never their own – miserable misfits who preach hate – this is horrible to watch from the outside – cannot imagine what it must be like for the President.

What has happened to the unemployment extension Bob? Is it dead in the water?

Nothing.
Apparently now accoding to TheHill they have reached a compromise. The 4 nominees will be agreed upon tonight and 3 of them confirmed but Janet Yellen has to wait until January. When unless there is some force of nature intervening the process will end.
Reid let the GOP save face by having Yellen wait for a few weeks and the entire senate going home tonight.
I will be watching on CSPAN and will report if there is anything of interest.

According to OC Weekly, Rohrabacher turned a million-dollar home that had brand-new carpet and appliances into an absolute pigsty.

When Congressman Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher moved into a four-bedroom, four-bathroom, million-dollar Costa Mesa rental home on April Fool’s Day 2010, the immaculate, 6,300-square-foot property could have been featured in a glossy real-estate magazine. Built in 1948, the two-story, Orange Avenue home had been updated in recent years for comfort and style. The carpeting was new, appliances worked and walls were spotless. Thriving flowers, plants and grass adorned the idyllic back yard less than 4 miles from the Pacific Ocean.

But it’s now understandable why Orange County’s senior, career politician secretly changed the locks and refused to allow homeowner Robert Polyniak inside for annual inspections. When he moved out in August 2012, Rohrabacher left behind a shockingly horrific pigsty, a dump worse than a college fraternity house of unhygienic slobs unfamiliar with the most basic tools of cleaning. Darlene Whitsell, Polyniak’s longtime girlfriend, entered the home shortly after the congressman’s departure and wept at the scene.

“…it’s now understandable why Orange County’s senior, career politician secretly changed the locks and refused to allow homeowner Robert Polyniak inside for annual inspections. When he moved out in August 2012, Rohrabacher left behind a shockingly horrific pigsty, a dump worse than a college fraternity house of unhygienic slobs unfamiliar with the most basic tools of cleaning.

This should not come as a surprise! Dana Rohrabacher is worse than a pig! I wish there was a way to swap people from Austin, Texas with people from Orange county (and parts of San Diego county), who keep electing idiot/scums like Dana Rohrabacher, Darrell Issa and Duncan Hunter Jr.

I love our First Lady. She is the best. Also I want to thank our First Lady and Dr. Jill Biden for all that they do to help our military men and women who give us so much in their service to our nation. I have never seen(in my lifetime) a FLOTUS and SLOTUS so engaged in so many wonderful things as their husbands serve us as our POTUS and VPOTUS. The best team ever in my lifetime. I love them for their hard work.

Second that HZ. I’ve lived a LOOOOOOOOONG time, and this is the first FLOTUS/SLOTUS pair who have worked together and so hard for the country. They are amazing…..bright, beautiful, compassionate, engaged, trustworthy….totally amazing. So glad to be living at this time!

Well said HZ! As some one who has been around for some time, I am overwhelmed by the fact that the majority of us Americans were smart enough to vote for two brilliant people, PBO and VP Biden, who also happen to be married to two brilliant women FLOTUS and SLOTUS. Like you, I regard them as “The best ever in my life time.”

…..and my lousy senator, Inhofe, was whining about getting home to family for anniversary and being with grandchildren…..well, here kids don’t get out of school until tomorrow afternoon…….there’s plenty of time, as most don’t go back to school until Jan. 7.
However…….most people only get Christmas DAY off…..not two or three weeks. This is the laziest group of “legislators” I’ve ever seen.